These College Majors Spend The Most On Textbooks

College may be the best years of your life, but they may also be some of the most expensive. Between tuition, dorm living, a meal plan, and school supplies, it can feel like you'll barely have any money left to survive — and then comes textbooks. College textbooks are notoriously expensive, and can run you as much as $1,200 a semester — but it turns out, some students pay more for textbooks, depending on their major.

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New research from Priceonomics revealed which students pay the most for their textbooks based on their majors, and the numbers are staggering. Based on the cost of textbooks at the University of Virginia, economics majors reluctantly take the top spot spending, on average, $317 for books per class. PER CLASS!

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An econ major with a full coarse load at the University of Virginia can easily spend over $1,268 on books a semester. But they're not the only ones whose wallets are empty. Students who major in languages, chemistry, physics, and psychology round out the top five majors that spend the most on books.

Unfortunately, paying for textbooks is almost unavoidable, but there are plenty of other ways to save tons during college, including by renting textbooks, swapping or sharing with other students in your same major, and buying used ones.